At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one’s lost self.

Beyond the boundaries of herself, her parents and the enclosing garden walls, were open fields and other waiting places she still knew nothing of – lies of the land, perhaps. What Katie did know is...

Occasionally, very occasionally, say at four o’clock in the afternoon on a wet Sunday, she feels panic-stricken and almost breathless with loneliness. Once or twice she has been known to pick up the phone to...

I don’t know,” she said. “We used to squabble a lot when we were going together and then engaged and everything, but I thought everything would be so different as soon as you were married....

Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours about what I read in the books; and would longingly picture myself amidst gay crowds in...

Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.

I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth.

As always when he worked with this much concentration he began to feel a sense of introverting pressure. There was no way out once he was in, no genuine rest, no one to talk to...

When we feel lonely we keep looking for a person or persons who can take our loneliness away. Our lonely hearts cry out, ‘Please hold me, touch me, speak to me, pay attention to me.’...

Oh, the places you’ll go! There is fun to be done!There are points to be scored. There are games to be won.And the magical things you can do with that ballwill make you the winning-est...

When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.

I wish I could tell you how lonely I am. How cold and harsh it is here. Everywhere there is conflict and unkindness. I think God has forsaken this place. I believe I have seen...

It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.

Indeed, he could not be long in discovering that people beyond a suspicion of unbalance, or not obviously coveting the moment’s arrest of attention gained them by their statements, never had experience with or knowledge...

She doesn’t give directions but there is a pot of gold at the end of her rainbow…Find it. If you can.

Loneliness is painful. But suffering is not wrong in and of itself. It’s part of the human experience, and in a way brings us closer to all people.

Since nature abhors a vacuum, the void must be in you.

See, that’s the thing about L.A.— When you’ve mastered the art of feeling lonely in a room full of people, that’s when you know.

I think only when you are truly alone can you see you never were.

A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn’t telling, or teaching, or ordering. Rather, he seeks to establish a relationship with meaning, of feeling, of observing....

people says loneliness is ugly.i feel it is most productive as much as our career build . to cultivate the other world inside – some way it shows the lessons.

Even in your closest friendships, you’re alone. Maybe it’s your best friend who, in fact, reminds you, just by making it her business to try to know your heart, that no one can – that...

One as deformed and horrible as myself, could not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects… with whom I can live in the interchange of...

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

Thus it had come about that she had read far more fiction, and far more poetry, those two sanctuaries of the lonely, than most of her kind.

Being brave and being alone aren’t the same thing.

Nobody should have to choose between a cold heart and a dead heart.

Loneliness is a poison, but aloneness is a catalyst.

Bir oyundaymışım da, ebe beni unutup gitmiş gibi. Yıllarca oyunun kaldığı yerden devam etmesini bekleyen bir çaresizdim. Sobelenmek pahasına ortaya çıkıyordum ve kimseler varlığımı umursamıyordu.

This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground.

For fear you will be aloneyou do so many thingsthat aren’t you at all.

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

The only way to escape the feeling of loneliness is to just be silent

In viaggio verso Bologna ho pensato a chi diceva di sentire il tempo come un enorme dolore. E ho visto, seduti accanto a me, donne e uomini di malaffari che andavano a guadagnarsi il pane...

Because it’s so hard to be kind to the world when all you’ve ever felt is hate.

They cannot scare me with their empty spacesBetween stars—on stars where no human race is.I have it in me so much nearer homeTo scare myself with my own desert places.

All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill the space she’d left behind.

The person whom you really, really love may not be here anymore. And you might be feeling lonely, but, there are people in this world who really, really love you, so shouldn’t that equal it...

Raven had been shunned and abandoned throughout his life. Friends often came and went without a word or worse, they toyed with his emotions and shared his secrets with those he chose to distrust. His...

I know what it feels like, and it sucks, it really does, when you are up in the middle of the night thinking about the things that you’ve suddenly became aware of. The things you’re...

Loneliness and desperation are only possible when we have lost touch with our beauty within.

There was a story etched in each wrinkle on his forehead-the stories any long life can amass but that only a lonely life locks forever.

Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.

I’ve never been lonely. I’ve been in a room — I’ve felt suicidal. I’ve been depressed. I’ve felt awful — awful beyond all — but I never felt that one other person could enter that...

If you’re constantly making yourself available to people’s whims, your time will become less valuable. Keep your backbone in any relationship – make sure you’re not so dedicated to it, and it shall stay sweet...

Loneliness watches and sights, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over… himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He’s going to make me sleep with him again tonight, i just know it.

You will forever be a stranger in a world that cannot really understand you…

Every time, Love pushed down the door where her loneliness lived. The Music came and sealed the chamber of her heart. She was filled with clear sweetness that was there from the start.

There is something magical to me about literature and fiction and I think it can do things not only that pop culture cannot do but that are urgent now: one is that by creating a...

…and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, ‘That was fine’. And your life is a long line of fine.